Happy Friday! We are off to a great start to 3rd quarter and appreciate you taking time last weekend to go through your student's Academic Binder. Below is a quick recap of our learning this week. BRIDGE TO GATE:
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BRIDGE TO GATE Parent Letter
Using Everyday Measures: Measuring with the Meerkats Dear Families, Welcome to Using Everyday Measures: Measuring with the Meerkats! We are looking forward to exploring measurement concepts including length, area, and capacity in this hands-on math unit. Students will be learning about the different methods and tools used to measure objects in the real world. Students have just met Dru and Teller, also known as the "Detective Duo" who are meerkats from the Kalahari Desert in Africa. Students will be communication with Dru and Teller throughout the unit about different situations involving measurement. Dru and Teller also will be helping students learn about the expectations of our math community and how we can work together to investigate the world of mathematics. We are looking forward to exploring measurement with Dru and Teller, using their advice about how to listen, talk, and write about math ideas along the way. During this unit, students will continue to think like true mathematicians, becoming student mathematicians themselves in the process!
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This afternoon your student went home with their academic binder. If your student was absent today I will send it with them whenever they return.
In the front pocket, you will find a printed copy of the letter below. Once you have read and signed this sheet (Q2: 1/21/22) , return the paper with the binder. Binders are due back on Monday January 24th, 2022. You are viewing students' academic binders for the 21-22 school year. Their purpose is to communicate with you
These binders will go home four times throughout the year. Items in the front pocket (ELA) and back pocket (Math) are yours to keep. Anything in page protectors is to be viewed and kept inside the binder. Happy New Year to our GATE family! We are looking forward to another year of growing disciples of Christ and the blessings God has given us. We had a great week back to school! I was impressed by how students transitioned back into our routine! Below you will find information about our learning in Bridge to GATE and GATE.
BRIDGE TO GATE (2nd Grade):
GATE (3rd & 4th Grade):
Have a great weekend, Mrs. Fitzgerald Dear Families, Welcome to the Project M3 unit, Factors, Multiples and Leftovers: Linking Multiplication and Division. Our class is looking forward to this unit on multiplicative thinking where we will investigate factors, multiples, basic facts, division, and remainders. First, students will investigate some of the characteristics of numbers such a whether or not a number is prime or composite by forming rectangular arrays. They will play games and solve puzzles to help them learn about even and oddness, square numbers, and factors and multiples of sets of numbers. They will use Venn diagrams to reason logically and make conjectures, and will explore the distributive property of multiplication as they learn strategies for calculating. Chapter 2 in the unit focuses on division. Students learn about “near facts” and work on estimation skills by using multiplication to help them determine the answer to a division problem. They play Beat the Calculator game and discover that people sometimes can be faster than a machine! They investigate “remainder” patterns that occur when dividing by different size divisors. Finally, students discuss what to do about the remainders when solving a variety of division word problems. In the final lesson, students play a Jeopardy® game as a culminating project for the unit. Students solve word problems and puzzles focused on all of the vocabulary, skills and concepts learned throughout the unit. Students can also adjust the categories of play and write clues. They then play the game and practice. In this final project, they will be working just like mathematicians! At the heart of all Project M3 investigations are problem solving, reasoning, and creative thinking. When students use these mathematical practices, they think and act like mathematicians. This helps them gain a deep understanding of the mathematics and develops their mathematical talent. I hope your child enjoys exploring this unit and the mathematical challenges it poses. I invite you to share in the discoveries your child makes by engaging in conversation around the family dinner table. You may even learn something new about factors and multiples from your young mathematician! |
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